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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to listen to something more than once. With any complex material,

a second listen, or a third, or a fourth, we'll reveal new things

and most likely increase the pleasure of the experience.

Over the past few weeks, I have been annoying my children

by listening to Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring in the car while I am driving people around.

This orchestral pace is under 30 minutes long, so I can get through the whole thing

on the drive to karate and back. It is also musically interesting enough that I haven't gotten

bored with it. As I listen to it again and again, I hear new themes and how different instruments

interpret the themes. As it becomes familiar, each listen is like greeting an old friend.

Now, not all music deserves such attention. A lot of pop songs become annoying

if you have to listen to them more than a few times. But a work that has stood the test of time

is different. There is generally enough there that your interest will grow rather than wane.

So if there is a work you would like to become more familiar with, why not try listening to it

more than once? You could listen to an opera or Beethoven symphonies. You could listen to box

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